Hard drive capacity

G

Guest

Installed Maxtor 250GB hard drive but when I select drive properties in "my
computer" the drive is listed as a 127GB size What happend to the other half
of my drive space.This is a SATA drive an am also runnig two parallel drives
that show the correct size.
 
H

HillBillyBuddhist

| You have SP1 installed yet?
|
| Dave wrote:
|
| > Installed Maxtor 250GB hard drive but when I select drive properties in
"my
| > computer" the drive is listed as a 127GB size What happend to the other
half
| > of my drive space.This is a SATA drive an am also runnig two parallel
drives
| > that show the correct size.
|

The operating system only recognizes 128 GB or 137 GB of my large capacity
drive.

http://maxtor.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/maxtor.cfg/php/enduser/olh_adp.php?p_faqid=960

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J

Jerry

Does your BIOS support drives of that size? Is there an update available for
the BIOS?
 
G

Guest

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Thanks


Jerry said:
Does your BIOS support drives of that size? Is there an update available for
the BIOS?




I would not know how to check if it does or not. Any suggestions would be great.
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